Researchers are calling for increased monitoring to protect threatened species, alongside more public education and incentives for fishers to use equipment that is less threatening to shark species.

Overfishing, illegal fishing and increasing marketing of shark meat pose significant threats to the more than 80 species of sharks and rays that inhabit the Mediterranean Sea, according to a study ...

New research has found more than 200 measures to protect sharks and rays across the 22 coastal states of the Mediterranean region. However, while elasmobranchs have made it onto many policy agendas, ...

Catch of a shark said to measure 20 feet offered glaring proof that the legendary apex predators inhabit the region.

The sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea are home to over 700 varieties ... the Mediterranean is a nursery where great white sharks give birth and raise their young.

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon dwarfing any other known floods in Earth's history," an ...

Overfishing, illegal fishing and increasing marketing of shark meat pose significant threats to the more than 80 species of sharks and rays that ...

Syria's port city of Tartus gave Russia a naval base in the Mediterranean for more than five decades but the downfall of ...

Did these sharks stay put, or mingle around the Mediterranean ... This is a tried-and-true method for surveying sea life. For the past 16 years, the Reef Life Survey has trained professional ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as artificial features like ...